| Costello, Elvis & The Imposters / Cruel Smile |
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| Album: | Cruel Smile | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Costello, Elvis & The Imposters | Added: | 11/2002 | |
| Label: | Island Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2002-12-30 | Pull Date: | 2003-03-03 |
| Week Ending: | 9 Feb | 2 Feb | 26 Jan | 19 Jan | 5 Jan |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 07, 2003: | Input/Output Uncomplicated | 4. | Jan 20, 2003: | The Back Of The Class When I Was Cruel | |
| 2. | Feb 03, 2003: | The Back Of The Class Watching the Detectives/My F | 5. | Jan 15, 2003: | Strange Attractors Smile | |
| 3. | Jan 26, 2003: | The Weekend Effect When I Was Cruel | 6. | Jan 14, 2003: | In The Leaves Smile |
| Album Review |
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| Guest DJ Account Reviewed 2002-12-08 | ||
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This collection of alternate takes and live tracks is light-hearted and often fun though rarely essential. Many of the live tracks combine Bacharach-influenced classic pop vocals with dub experiments. Occasionally the results are enjoyable (track 11), but often they are just weird. Other tracks are badly-conceived tape-loop experiments. Many tracks go on WAY TOO LONG. I would seriously recommend checking the length of the tracks before playing. Highlights: 1,2,5,11,13 1. Classic pop song with vibes, sax, and goofy string orchestration 2. Bittersweet, scathing, reminiscent of Elvis's best 3. Harrowingly spare with piano accomp 4. Horn-driven with lyrics, bouncy, buried ominous-sounding vocals, reminds me of TYM, too long 5. Catchy with tape-loop sounding backing, goofy outro 6. creepy dub-flavored remix of "When I was Cruel", kinda annoying 7. Dominated by loops, buried vocals, tuneless 8. Tape-loopy, attempt to be funky, is Costello trying to rap? 9. Spare, acoustic, despairing. 10. Tape-loopy, features guitar with dubby effects, creepy, buried vocal, horns at end 11. WTD: ragged, noisy featuring distorted guitars and very campy organ, great dub-flavored instrumental solos; MFV: reverberant vocals are spare, affectless 12. same song as 10, garagey, dub ending follows wanky bridge, way too long 13. Tape-loopy, garagey, organ-dominated, catchy. More song-like than other experimental tracks 14. same as 1 but with just piano accomp 15. Hidden track: Soul for Hire, vocals and dub backing, particularly incongruous, too long Eric K. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Smile | 8. | Peroxide Side | |||
| 2. | When I Was Cruel | 9. | Oh Well | |||
| 3. | Almost Blue | 10. | The Imposter Vs. the Floodte | |||
| 4. | 15 Petals | 11. | Watching the Detectives/My F | |||
| 5. | Spooky Girlfriend | 12. | Dust | |||
| 6. | Honeyhouse | 13. | Uncomplicated | |||
| 7. | Revolution Doll | 14. | Smile |